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Home, Smart Home: A Guide to Smart Home Devices
Your home is getting smarter and smarter. Not just computers and smartphones, but everything seems to be connected to the internet now: clocks, speakers, lights, TVs, doorbells, cameras, vacuums. The list goes on. Nearly everything in your home can be connected to the internet and be remotely controlled with a mobile device. Smart home devices provide convenience, especially …
Safety Tips for Snowbirds: Keeping Your Home Safe While You’re Away
We all agree that Whidbey Island is an amazing place to live and work. We also agree that it can get pretty cold and grey in the winter! Sometimes you just want to be someplace warm. Whether you’re “flying south” for the winter, closing up your summer residence, or just planning to be away for a sun break, you’ll want to keep your home …
Bridging the Divide: Why Rural Broadband is So Important
The internet isn’t all about Twitter and cat videos. It’s about doctors researching new techniques and coordinating records to save lives. It’s about local farmers acquiring national data on crops and supply and demand. It’s about students studying other countries and expanding their knowledge beyond the pages of a textbook. It’s about you reading interesting blog …
Building a Fiberhood: Lightning Fast Internet to Your Home
You’re doing a lot more with your internet today—social networking, videoconferencing, connecting smart homes, and uploading and downloading pictures and video. Fiber-optic internet provides enough bandwidth to do all these things and more, and at blazing-fast speeds! This need for better connectivity is what drives us to bring fiber-optic internet to homes and businesses throughout …
Cutting the Cable: A Guide to Streaming TV
Every day, more and more Americans are “cutting the cable,” choosing to stream their TV content rather than using traditional cable services. In fact, most of us stream to some degree already. Perhaps you have DISH TV, but you also use Netflix. You’re already streaming, and most likely you have everything you need to cut …
12 Days of Christmas Tech: Gift Ideas for the Tech Lover in Your Family
It may seem intimidating to shop for that tech lover in your family. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’re all a bunch of tech geeks here at Whidbey Telecom. We admit, we get downright giddy when new and interesting technology hits the market. And really, who doesn’t love a good gadget? We’ve come up …
